The PSP role-playing game Heroes Phantasia takes nine popular fantasy and sci-fi anime — Blood+, Read or Die, My-HiME, s-CRY-d, Darker Than Black, Slayers Revolution, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen, Rune Soldier Louie and Sgt Frog — and mixes them into one giant cross-over adventure. And while fans of these shows will no doubt be excited to play as their favourite characters, the question remains: is there a good game buried beneath the fan-service or is it all flash and no substance?
You know things are bad when your old portable is beating your brand new one. This week, Sony’s PS Vita sold only 8,931. The PSP sold 14,804 units. The good news, I guess, is that Sony makes both handhelds. The bad? The newly released PS Vita continues to nosedive in Japan. This week it sold less than 10,000.
For years, Bandai Namco has been releasing mega crossovers of giant robot anime — ranging from Gundam to Evangelion to Voltron — in the Super Robot Wars series. But having made many other types of anime tie-in games in the past, giant robot anime aren’t the only anime Bandai Namco holds the licenses for.
Heroes Phantasia, the anime crossover RPG, has playable characters from a total of nine different anime. But how lame would it be if you could only choose three or four party members like most JRPGs? Fear not! Heroes Phantasia has a complex battle system that allows you a grand total of 16 characters in battle at the same time.
Over the past few weeks, hackers from Wololo.net claimed to have exploited code found in two downloadable PSP games to essentially crack the PlayStation Vita wide open, allowing for the playing of pirated/homebrew games on the system.
A strong innocent youth with a thirst for adventure, a soldier with a sense of duty and honour, an outcast warrior… The heroes of the fantasy RPGs of yesteryear have always been people of strong moral fibre and a will to stand up and fight. Now, game developer e-smile in their new game Ore-ni Hatarakette Iwaretemo (How Can You Ask Me to Work) brings us the hero of modern Japan: a NEET.
